Fast rift propagation at a slow-spreading ridge

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 639-642

  Kleinrock, Martin C ^a   Tucholke, Brian E ^b   Lin, Jian ^b   Tivey, Maurice A ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOCHRONS; MID ATLANTIC RIDGE; MORPHOLOGICAL PATTERNS; ORIENTED FEATURES; RIFT PROPAGATION; SLOW-SPREADING RIDGES; SPREADING RATE;

GEOLOGY;

MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; OBLIQUITY; OCEANIC CRUST; PLATE TECTONICS; RIFTING; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; MID OCEAN RIDGE; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; RIFT PROPAGATION; SEA FLOOR SPREADING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE; ATLANTIC;

EID: 0031465105     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0639:FRPAAS>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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